Science news articles about 'ajit varki'

  • Human evolution: Details of being human

    A difference in one molecule led physician Ajit Varki to question what sets humans apart from other apes. Bruce Lieberman meets a man who sees a big picture in the finer points.
  • Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease?

    ... one has composed it and laid it out so clearly before," said Ajit Varki, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and founder and co ...
  • Eating red meat sets up target for disease-causing bacteria

    ... , San Diego School of Medicine professor Ajit Varki, M.D., has uncovered the first ... in serious food-poisoning and other symptoms in humans," said Varki. The research emphasizes the need for people to eat ...
  • How eating red meat can spur cancer progression

    ... , San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new ... more Neu5Gc than is usually found in normal human tissues," said Varki. "We therefore surmised that Neu5Gc must somehow ...
  • Leading pathogen in newborns can suppress immune cell function

    ... effort between the laboratories of senior authors Nizet and Ajit Varki, MD, distinguished professor of medicine ... selection pressures are present to modify their expression, according to Varki, with pathogenic microbes likely playing a critical ...
  • Scientists report original source of malaria

    ... ago – though an exact time could not be determined. The results support an earlier hypothesis by Dr. Ajit Varki of UC San Diego and colleagues that genetic mutations made humans first resistant ...
  • Non-human sugar in biotech drugs causes inflammation

    ... human immune systems did not react to it, said Ajit Varki, MD, professor of medicine and cellular ... are required for survival, but they're also used to attack you," said Varki, who is founder and co-director of the Glycobiology Research ...
  • Special focus on glycomics in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

    ... present on the surface of cells. Miriam Cohen and Ajit Varki, from University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, coauthored "The Sialome—Far More than the Sum ...
  • A cancer marker and treatment in 1?

    ... , MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine, and Ajit Varki, MD, professor of medicine and cellular ... anti-Neu5Gc response. In previous research, Varki and colleagues described how low-dose anti ...

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